Kami no Kiba - Jinga

OMG Episode 4. what have you done.
Funny enough I love this episode while 90% of it is nothing but the new guys being :
"do you think Jinga is the real thing ? yeah he is the real thing. but what if he is not ? hmmm. but what if he is ? hmmm that would be great hope for humanity. but if he is not. hmmm. I'll kill him"

okay guys can we move on now we get it xD

But yeah as soon as the blue butterfly appeared in the episode. instant fangasm.

and this ending omg.
When Jinga was silent, and suddenly clouds got in front of the moon, I thought "oh the final scene will be the camera on the face of Jinga with an evil look"

Oh boy i was not ready for what happened next, and it's the first time in a loooooong time I gasped without controlling myself.

Episode 3 was really nice. I do like these done-in-one episodes with the sympathetic Horror host. The wrestler's acting was a bit rough in spots, but it was a fun episode.

Episode 4 definitely had some holy shit moments. It's been awhile since I watched Gold Storm Sho, so I had to pause and double-check on something when the butterfly showed up, but that just confirmed my suspicions. Even then, I did not see the ending coming. I mean, I had a hunch it would happen as that scene unfolded, but I was still surprised when Jinga actually went there. I am really curious to see where the show goes from here.

Episode 4 definitely had some holy shit moments. It's been awhile since I watched Gold Storm Sho, so I had to pause and double-check on something when the butterfly showed up, but that just confirmed my suspicions. Even then, I did not see the ending coming. I mean, I had a hunch it would happen as that scene unfolded, but I was still surprised when Jinga actually went there. I am really curious to see where the show goes from here.

I found it weird on Halloween night when I saw on twitter that Matsunoi Miyavi was hanging out with Inoue and Fusa actress dressed as their GARO characters. I mean it's not THAT weird, but you didn't see Hironobu Kageyama hanging too much with the others actors on events while he was voicing Zaruba.
So I thought maybe Amily would be back. and seems like it's happening and she just won't voice Alva only.

About the final scene, everything happened so fast that it confused me.
Until now, every episode ended with a closing scene with the opening song~instrumental version in the back. But this time it happened in the second to last one. I thought something was of. But since Shijo was a new character, it never occured to me Jinga killing him coldly would happen.
I thought "oh he will simply give him a warning. Jinga saying he knows Shijo is here to watch him if he goes on the wrong path"
but no. jinga stays silent and the tension is going up.
Then the butterfly appeared, then the moon being covered. Jinga is still not answering Shijo.
I thought "Damn so there will be a cliffhanger on his face becoming evil maybe ?"
and then the sudden thrust.
Huge and genuine surprised gasp from me. did not expect that.
All this happened within a single minute. so many emotions. confused. surprised. shocked.

It's funny how this happened so fast. so far the show has been very slow about the plot. and suddenly this.
It's like you're in a old car. Going at 60 Km/h and the next second you're in a Ferrari at 300 Km/h and you're almost breaking your neck xD

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Originally Posted by henshinzero

You donít think Jinga will go back to being fully evil again do you? Wouldnít you all wanna see him go into the path of a hero instead?

Always thought Jinga would end up being a mixed guy. I think his Grey coat wasn't chosen randomly. He will be a mix of good and bad.
I don't know what it means or how you can be both at the same time though.

Aaaaand Episode 5 is kind of a boring episode. up and down seem to be the pattern this season.
Though it's not as bad as Ep1 or 3. There are some interesting things to note. points of interest to me :

- Jinga. He appeared in like 4 scenes only. In 3 of them he was the evil Jinga (talking to Touma scene, touch Fusa lips scene, and killing the horror scene). Now I don't know if it's me seeing things or not, but the scene where he was good was the scene all the characters were outside in the middle of the day, so exposed to light, and the scene were he was Evil Jinga he was either outside at night or in his "darkish" basement/hideout.
I don't know if it's just an artistic choice or if there is a plot point about it.

If you think about it, Evil jinga killing Shijo happened at night when the light of the moon (well. light of the sun technically) was covered by clouds.

- Touma and Jinga scene made me upset. After the shocking ending last week and Shijo death, this scene was "Scuse me, what ? :/""Touma : Hey Jinga where is Shijo ?
Jinga : He is long gone
Touma : haha he chickened out and ran away"

end of the conversation and no Shijo dialogue again.

Scuse me but WTF ? In universe even Touma should know Shijo was a Makai Knight in training and better than at least himself. How "he got scared and ran away lol" is a credible answer to his disappearance ? Made me more upset than it should probably but still.

- Fusa's weird in that episode. But I think they're trying to hint at something that happened in her past (but from really far away, probably to drag it). Not that crying over watching a rape scene and can't do anything is weird but it still felt too much.

- I know they already did this before in GARO, but they seem to hint more and more at "Human and Horror ? what's the difference ? Some are good, some are bad"
I admit i would like Jinga to become some kind of grey vigilente. Killing bad people (humans AND horrors) and letting good ones live.
But I feel it's impossible with the kind of message GARO is usually trying to convey.

Nothing else to discuss aside of these for me.
That's a fanservice episode like GARO do at least once in every seasons. Main girl fanservice. Cleavage/prostitutes/bargirls everywhere. Except there was Evil Jinga fanservice as well.

And once again budget is so low you don't even see a fight scene this time. and obviously not the armor.
I feel it will be my main complain at the end of this show.

Aaaaand Episode 5 is kind of a boring episode. up and down seem to be the pattern this season.
Though it's not as bad as Ep1 or 3. There are some interesting things to note. points of interest to me :

- Jinga. He appeared in like 4 scenes only. In 3 of them he was the evil Jinga (talking to Touma scene, touch Fusa lips scene, and killing the horror scene). Now I don't know if it's me seeing things or not, but the scene where he was good was the scene all the characters were outside in the middle of the day, so exposed to light, and the scene were he was Evil Jinga he was either outside at night or in his "darkish" basement/hideout.
I don't know if it's just an artistic choice or if there is a plot point about it.

If you think about it, Evil jinga killing Shijo happened at night when the light of the moon (well. light of the sun technically) was covered by clouds.

- Touma and Jinga scene made me upset. After the shocking ending last week and Shijo death, this scene was "Scuse me, what ? :/""Touma : Hey Jinga where is Shijo ?
Jinga : He is long gone
Touma : haha he chickened out and ran away"

end of the conversation and no Shijo dialogue again.

Scuse me but WTF ? In universe even Touma should know Shijo was a Makai Knight in training and better than at least himself. How "he got scared and ran away lol" is a credible answer to his disappearance ? Made me more upset than it should probably but still.

- Fusa's weird in that episode. But I think they're trying to hint at something that happened in her past (but from really far away, probably to drag it). Not that crying over watching a rape scene and can't do anything is weird but it still felt too much.

- I know they already did this before in GARO, but they seem to hint more and more at "Human and Horror ? what's the difference ? Some are good, some are bad"
I admit i would like Jinga to become some kind of grey vigilente. Killing bad people (humans AND horrors) and letting good ones live.
But I feel it's impossible with the kind of message GARO is usually trying to convey.

Nothing else to discuss aside of these for me.
That's a fanservice episode like GARO do at least once in every seasons. Main girl fanservice. Cleavage/prostitutes/bargirls everywhere. Except there was Evil Jinga fanservice as well.

And once again budget is so low you don't even see a fight scene this time. and obviously not the armor.
I feel it will be my main complain at the end of this show.

Yeah I agree. It was boring and kinda slow. I do appreciate that they gave Fusa some more screen time but it felt like they really didn't know what to do with her and the plot. The evil Jinga parts were good but after the great, shock ending of the previous episode, it was underwhelming that they really didnt touch on a lot from it in this episode (although it seems like episode 6 will).

- Touma and Jinga scene made me upset. After the shocking ending last week and Shijo death, this scene was "Scuse me, what ? :/""Touma : Hey Jinga where is Shijo ?
Jinga : He is long gone
Touma : haha he chickened out and ran away"

end of the conversation and no Shijo dialogue again.

Scuse me but WTF ? In universe even Touma should know Shijo was a Makai Knight in training and better than at least himself. How "he got scared and ran away lol" is a credible answer to his disappearance ? Made me more upset than it should probably but still.

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And once again budget is so low you don't even see a fight scene this time. and obviously not the armor.
I feel it will be my main complain at the end of this show.

Yeah, sadly budget is a thing, and the lack of it show off sometimes. But that episode is mostly from Fusa perspective, it make sense she came just after the fight scene and didn't understand what the hell just happened.

I had the same reaction towards Touma's scene. I mean the kid saw real shit happening until now and shouldn't be that careless.

Personally, I kinda liked this one. It was pretty slow, but the bits with Jinga did a really good job of maintaining the tension from last week's cliffhanger. Even if the main plot wasn't that exciting, the few Jinga scenes really worked for me.

So with this series is that how they're going to play it? We get the back story for the Horror of the week. And did they turn Jinga into a werewolf? During the day he's normal good guy, but at night he turns into a evil monster.

I would have personally preferred them to just tell his story prior to him becoming a Horror. Which is what I thought that they were showing us with this series.